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The United States
OF
North America
PART I

NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL

HISTORY OF AMERICA

EDITED

By JUSTIN WINSOR

LIBRARIAN OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY

VOL. VI

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

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Copyright, 1887,
By HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.

All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.

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CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

[The cut on the title shows the obverse of the Washington medal, struck to commemorate the siege of Boston.]

CHAPTER I.
The Revolution Impending. Mellen Chamberlain1
Illustrations: George III., 20; Lord North, with Autograph, 21; Rockingham, 31;Fac-simile of Glorious News, May 16, 1766, 33; John Adams, 36;Fac-simile of Adams's Writing, 37; Samuel Adams, with Autograph, 40;Samuel Adams, 41; Revere's Plan of State Street at the time of the BostonMassacre, 48; Autographs of the Court for the Trial following theBoston Massacre,—Benjamin Lynde, John Cushing, Peter Oliver, EdmundTrowbridge, Jonathan Sewall, Samuel Winthrop, 50...

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